Eli's Worthless Sons

¹² Now the sons of Eli were ^(A)worthless men. ^(B)They did not know the Lord.

¹⁷ Thus the sin of the young men was very great ^(A)in the sight of the Lord, ^(B)for the men treated the offering of the Lord with contempt.

Eli Rebukes His Sons

²² Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who ^(A)were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

²⁴ No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.

^13 (A)And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, ^(B)because his sons were blaspheming God,^{[a] (C)}and he did not restrain them.